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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (109608)	5/7/2000 1:22:00 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 1577025

Re: "Edit - You know, Micron wouldn't support the Athlon family if they weren't sure upcoming Athlons could effectively compete against the competition in the future. Just something to think about..." I spoke to a friend who works at Micron today. I pointed out how Micron was thumbing their nose at Intel with the DDR DRAM chip set support for both Athlon and PIII. He said Micron met all contractual obligations to Intel for the $500 million. He said Micron will provide DRDRAM if there is a market. Apparently, Micron can't manufacture and sell the Samurai/PIII chip sets as part of the agreement. Thus, they are going thru a foundry (wouldn't say who) with cross licensing agreements with Intel. I guess they concluded that Athlon would succeed in large volume and it made sense to do Samurai/Athlon chip sets. Since they had to go thru a foundry for Samurai/PIII, they decided to foundry both. He mentioned all the DRDRAM problems (cost/chip size/design sensitivity/heat generation/yield/etc. etc.) But the main reason seemed to be that (based on early results) he thought the Samurai/DDR DRAM combination would be simply cheaper and faster. Let's hope so. THE WATSONYOUTH